Playing devil's advocate: no, not such a terrible tendency at all - I indulge in it myself sometimes. I just realized, there at the end, that I was probably trying to convince you of something without knowing what said "something" was anymore. That's when it got confusing. *g*

I didn't know that quotation, but yes, very true. And there's a fine line between when silence is just a bad but understandable choice, and when it's plain morally wrong not to speak out.